pre season games

never been to a pre season game although with being extremely anxious for the season to start i was thinking about scooping up tickets to one or two to check it out being that tickets are so cheap(stubhub).. i can imagine the arena being quite dead and empty for these games though? Do any of you guys usually attend the pre season games? and are they dead and boring? geesh im even bored on here lately theres nothing left to talk about

never been to a pre season game although with being extremely anxious for the season to start i was thinking about scooping up tickets to one or two to check it out being that tickets are so cheap(stubhub).. i can imagine the arena being quite dead and empty for these games though? Do any of you guys usually attend the pre season games? and are they dead and boring? geesh im even bored on here lately theres nothing left to talk about

Pre-season games tend to be glorified scrimmages with many of the scrubs trying to make the team, so don't go into it seeing top-notch hockey.

I wouldn't even bother with stubhub and just keep waiting as there are two cheaper options:

1) Get a voucher for a free ticket from a STH who has extras (there are usually plenty). Those can be redeemed at the box office for a ticket to that night's game

2) If past history continues, wait until about a week or a few days before the games are scheduled and the Devils usually have a special link to dirt cheap tickets. In the 2011-12 pre-season I got lower level tickets for either $10 or $15 each.

never been to a pre season game although with being extremely anxious for the season to start i was thinking about scooping up tickets to one or two to check it out being that tickets are so cheap(stubhub).. i can imagine the arena being quite dead and empty for these games though? Do any of you guys usually attend the pre season games? and are they dead and boring? geesh im even bored on here lately theres nothing left to talk about

Not boring at all, just not "great hockey". I genuinely enjoy seeing some of our young kids fighting for a spot. It's great to see the levels of progress made (or lack thereof) across our roster, especially after an offseason like this where so many people are fighting for a few spots.

Watching guys like Larsson or Josefson or Tedenby during the preseason is really what I look forward to. Seeing where Merrill, Gelinas or even maybe Boucher lie will be particularly exciting. Most of us don't/can't watch the Albany/minors/juniors too much, so it's great to see some of these kids in action that we read about all year.

Seeing DeBoer tinker with how Clowe or Ryder or Olesz are used will be fun to follow over those few weeks and those preseason games make opening night that much more exciting.

ohh cool deal... thanks for the tips.. wish i wouldve found this forum seasons ago ive learned so much since ive been here since march

The pre season game are fun if you want to see the younger guys fighting for a spot. It isn't pretty hockey (but when is Devils hockey anyway?), but it's a nice chance to see guys like Merril, Gelinas, Boucher, maybe an early Schneider game, etc.

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The first couple of preseason games are fun to watch simply due to hockey withdrawal, and yeah, you get to see some future names, but pretty it ain't.

You also get the Pavel Brendl-types who have great preseasons, then promptly go on to do almost zilch once the games count. You see that in all of the preseasons, really...the Mets had a couple of preseason beasts (Darren Reed and Butch Huskey) who went on to do a hell of a lot less once the regular season began.

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The first couple of preseason games are fun to watch simply due to hockey withdrawal, and yeah, you get to see some future names, but pretty it ain't.

You also get the Pavel Brendl-types who have great preseasons, then promptly go on to do almost zilch once the games count. You see that in all of the preseasons, really...the Mets had a couple of preseason beasts (Darren Reed and Butch Huskey) who went on to do a hell of a lot less once the regular season began.

You also get to see Lou's strange camp invites playing in sometimes their only games in a Devil sweater. Like the great Fedor Fedorov!!

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